Babysitting dad WILLIAM STARKLEY has been arrested for child endangerment after a SECOND incident where his 3-year-old son was found outside wandering around naked and unattended. Dad was already on probation for the earlier incident. Mom was at work at time of this last incident. House was reputedly a mess, too.
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Father Arrested After Toddler Found Wandering Street
Not First Time Child Found Wandering Without Parent
POSTED: 6:28 am CDT September 30, 2009
UPDATED: 8:11 am CDT September 30, 2009
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A Kansas City father was arrested Tuesday after his toddler was found walking naked near a Dumpster.
William Starkley is charged with felony child endangerment for the incident, while already on probation for an earlier incident involving the same child and similar circumstances.
Two women found the 3-year-old boy by a Dumpster at the King's Manor Apartments, naked and alone. The witnesses told police the boy could not tell them where he lived.
After finding a blanket for the boy, the pair called the police.
Police found the father asleep in an apartment on Longview Road. Police said the door of the apartment was wide open, his 5-year-old walking the hall, and two 9-month-old girls awake in a crib.
The police report described the home as "very unclean, with trash and food on the floor and a knife (in) the kitchen within reach of the children."
Police say the children's mother was at work and came home to take over care of the kids after the Starkey was arrested.
A woman at the apartment with the children Tuesday night had no comment.
This is not the first time Starkey has gotten in trouble for not keeping track of his son.
A year ago near 55th Street and Eastern Avenue a neighbor called about the boy wandering in her front yard, saying she'd already returned him to his dad once that day when she found the toddler wandering the street.
The police report from the case said it took police an hour to find the boy's father. The father was asleep inside his home a half-mile away. When police returned three hours later to ticket him the boy was missing again.
Neighbors at the address where the couple lived in 2008 told KCTV5 the boy wandered off regularly. They said the man was a loving father, but worked a night shift and and had trouble staying awake during the day when the mother worked.